Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A THIRTY-TWO FOOT spruce log was recently
sawed into boards in a Puget Sound mill. ana
made {, 400 feet OF lumber without RhoI'
SAN DIEGO, CAL, has one of the wisest
Cinnamon in the world. He is laundryman,
and he has kept an advertisement running IN
the local paper for fifteen years.
THE death by drowning at Sierra Madre'
Cal, of F. w. Gould makes the fifth conseca-
tive case in which the eldest male member OF
his family has persisted by drowning.
FANNIE RAsoHE. beggar well known on
the streets of New Orleans for years past, oled
in her miserable howell the other day, and hid
den in the room were a bank book ana securl-
ties representing $4,000,
MICHAEL DAvITT, at Harbor Springs. Mich,
cut tree near that place that had an ak i'm
bedded in it, covered with concentrtc growths
that indicated that the AK was welded ana
thrust into the tree 100 years ago.
HANNAH BATTERsBY. the latest woman in
the world, brought it all on herself by eating
sweets. For several years her average was
pound Of candy per day, and 1t cost her sew
eral hundred dollars to get ready 10 De q mu-
scum subject.
THE committee Of Washington merchants
| having in charge the arrangements for a car
nival, after the style of that held in New Or
leans, have decided to postpone the event I'M
til next fall. They still insist, however,
that an unprecedented carnival will DO held
at that time.
THE Boston Budget tells of a clergyman Of
that city who, while being shaved. was capti-
waited by the face of q young lady who hap
pened to look in the barbershOp window. he
hurried his toilet, rushed out, overlook the
girl, made up TO her, succeeded in making
good impression and married her in less than
& month.
THE other day Prof. James G. May, of
Salem, Ind, concluded that he had taught
long enough and closed his school. He chose
as the day the fifty eighth anniversary Of his
marriage. He had been teaching for sixty
five wears, having spent II ,lS2 days IN the
schoolroom, and still, at the age OF g. was an
energetic and successful teacher.
A MERCHANT in Los Angeles, CAL, observed
a newsboy peering down into the grating in
the sidewalk IL front OF his store, one after
noon recently, and upon inquiry learned that
the little chap had dropped quarter into the
place and was studying upon the best means
of recovering his wealth. The merchant sent
one OF his clerks down into the cellar, recov-
cred the coin and very coolly put it into his
TIL. An officer Investigated the matter and
gave the boy 25c. to replace the coin OF which
he had been plundered.
GOLD is shipped across the ocean in "specie
kegs, ;" made of extra hard wood with an extra
IRON hoop, each keg containing $1,000. In the
what IS technically known among the ship
pers as the red taDing" process. At each
end of the keg, in the projecting rim OF the
slaves above the head, are bored four holes at
equidistant intervals. piece of red tape is
run through these holes. crossing on the head
of the keg, and the ends finally meeting in the
centre. At the point of meeting the tape is
sealed to the kegs head by wax bearing the
stamp of the shipper.
GEN. DANIEL E. SICKLEs, whose father has
just died, is &C years of age, but he manages
to keep younger and LOOK younger than any
man on Manhattan Island Of anything like
his years. 1t must be said he is suspected of
using little dye on his we'll preserved cere-
bral thatch. Gen. SIckles was in the State
Assembly as far back as lS47. He keeps him
self young by good living and by missing
nothing in the amusement line that is worth
seeing. While not great eater or drinker
the General insists upon having good dishes
we'll cooked. He says that he hopes to see
the day when one of the biggest monuments
in every city in the world is dedicated to the
ablest cook.
1T is said that Albany, N. Y, is the only
capital of the original thirteen States which
was not captured during the revolutionary
war. 1t stood like a Gibraltar of the colonial
cause, when Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia had fallen. Enemies endeavored to
capture it from the NORTH, but melted away by
the time they reached Saratoga. Time and
time again did the English troops attempt to
force their way up the Hudson with i'll sue
cess. During the war of 1912 the attempt WAS
again made to capture Albany from the
north. but though the capital of the nation
was plllaged Albany remained in security.
Even ID the dark days of the seventeenth CEN
fury the French and Indians did not come
closer shan Schenectady.
WILSON BARRETT IS made the hero of an
entertaining story. 1t is to the effect that the
daughter of a well-known business man, be-
coming desperately smltten with the English
actor, sent him number of gushing letters In
which she requested him to meet her. MIR.
Barrett took no notice of the love-sick mai
denis effusions at first but his admirer be-
came so persistent in her epstolary atten-
tions that he took the trouble to learn who
and what she was. Satisfied that she was
simply silly girl who should be taught a les
son. he made an appointment with her. They
were to have nice little dinner together, it
was arranged. but the girl was very Disagree
ably surprised on being led into welI-Known
resort TO find all the members of her family
awaiting them. The scheme so nicely carried
| out was planned by the girls father, TO " HON
the actor had given all her letters. just how
efhcacious was the lesson can be imagined
when it is added that the young lady has
written comedietta upon her experience,
entitled. "ehe Would and He Wouldn't"
AMONG the guests mentioned in London
society paper as having attended the recep-
lions OF the Marquis de Leuville is SOL
disant Prince de Mantua, whose claims to the
| title which he bears are on a par with that Of
| his host. The last Duke of Mantua. Padua
| and Prince of GonZaga died in exile in Lon
| don in the year 1868 childess and without
| leaving any relations or descendants, being
| absolutely the last of his line. Unfortunately
| the whole Of his papers fell into the hands of
| "a kind of half valet, half secretary, whom he
| had employed during the latter years of his
| life. Taking advantage of the fact that his
| master had lived in complete retirement and
| was comparatively unknown in London,
| this man soon assumed the honors,
| titles and dignities OF the dead
duke. BY means of comforting
| decorations, crosses and medals on various
| vain and ignorant persons and then demand
| ing heavy initiation fees for their entry on TO
| the ''rolls Of the members OF his orders" he
| eked out q comfortable existence. few
| years ago, however. some persons who had
known the late Duke got hold of one OF the
| precious circulars. in which he informed peo-
| pie that he had conferred on them mis- decOra-
| tion and asked for fees. and after some con-
| sultatlon decided to place the matter in the
hands OF the London police. AS it was, how
ever, impossible to induce any one OF the per-
sons who had accepted his orders and paid
the fees to face public ridicule as prosecutors,
the detective department of Scotland Y ard
was forced to content itself with warn
ing the lmpostor to stop his little game. 1t
is not known how he has made his living
since then.
IN the second and last installment OF his
remarkable essay on Napoleon Bonaparte,
which appears in the current number OF the
Revue des Deux Mondes, NJ. Tame cites sew